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" In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. "

Northern Ireland

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" A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. "

" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "

" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

" I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. "

" There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. "

" Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. "

" I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it. "

" We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. "

" History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.' "

" I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going. "

" Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. "

" I see poetry as spiritual medicine. "

Mahmoud Darwish

" I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching. "

" Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. "

" I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing like them, I would give up poetry and writing. "

" Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry. "

" Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic. "

" A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. "

Karen Armstrong

" I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish. "

" Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. "

" Poetry lies its way to the truth. "

" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. "

" It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny. "

Earl Sweatshirt

" Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer. "

" We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. "

" I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. "

" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. "

" Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker. "

" So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. "

" Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. "

William Hazlitt